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1 Jan 23

Asda Green Token Giving is here

ASDA Green Token Giving is back. We are delighted to have been selected to take part in the online ASDA Foundation Green Token Giving event, for the 2nd time. During covid Asda couldn’t operate their popular in-store token drop in the way they usually would, so they took it online and have decided to keep it there […]

25 Dec 22

Thankyou to all our amazing supporters and volunteers

Our generous supporters Wow, what a year! Our busiest ever, with more vouchers fulfilled, more people fed and more food given out than ever before. For a short term project, that was only meant to last a few years, we really can’t believe we are needed more than ever, 9 years later. The question is, […]

17 Dec 22

Christmas opening times.

As always, the lead up to Christmas has been hectic but this year it’s been far far busier than usual and we are all looking forward to a couple of days off, but don’t worry, it will only be the Bank holidays so we are open every day on the week prior to Christmas. We […]

6 Dec 22

It’s not often we’re lost for words when it comes to the generosity of the people in our towns, because over the 9 and a half years we’ve been running and the dozens of collections and events we’ve done we have seen it so many times. This is different though, it’s the biggest cost of […]

20 Nov 22

Reverse advent calendars are here, could you do one?

Reverse Advent Calendar Over the past few years the idea of an advent calendar has switched from simply a picture, then chocolate treats and now youcangeg some extremely luxury ones with lots of nice gifts and treats available. Now there is another way to count down through advent to Christmas with a calendar that you […]

11 Nov 22

A must read for all our supporters and volunteers

Ever wondered what impact your donations or your time volunteering has on the people in crisis we help every day? Casually going about my day today, I received a message in our inbox, that made me so proud to be a volunteer at this amazing foodbank. Caroline, was asking how to give back, and what […]

7 Nov 22

It’s Tesco collection time and we need your help. (For 2 hours)

It’s almost our busiest time of the year and Tesco know this, which is why they have their winter food collection at this time of year. ‘This year it will be even more important as we have never been busier and expect Christmas to be a very very busy time. So what can you do […]

18 Oct 22

Help with the cost of living

The government have announced help for every UK household but lots of other help and advice is also available. visit our cost of living advice page for information on all the various agencies that can offer help and direct you to the different payments and schemes available to you.

8 Oct 22

Our busiest week ever!

Last week was our busiest in over 9 years of operation. Demand for our service, that was originally set up as a short term support project to help people through austerity, has rocketed of late and, unfortunately, that demand seems only to be going one way. More vouchers, more people and more stock going out […]

20 Sep 22

Harvest Appeal 2022

As Harvest time draws near we have never felt the need, to help people in food poverty in our neighbourhood, more than we do this year. The cost of living and energy crisis has really hit our communities hard and our services are running flat out. Please, if you can add one or two items […]

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